This blog publishes information typically sent through the Health Facilities Web Portal to health care entities regulated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Please note that the Web Portal is the official medium for business communication between the Department and licensed and Medicare/Medicaid certified health care entities. Health care entities should continue to monitor their portal accounts routinely.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

- ATTENTION - 2014-2015 Healthcare Worker (HCW) FLU VACCINE REPORTING

Since spring is approaching, we want to remind healthcare facilities about the Colorado Board of Health (BOH)rule 6 CCR 1011-1 Chap 2 regarding influenza vaccination of HCWs in licensed health care facilities. This rule requires health care facilities to report data their facility-specific data each spring. The requirement for 2014-2015 is to have at least 90% of your employees immunized with the influenza vaccine.

To report these data, you can use either the Colorado Health Facility Portal (state portal) or the National Health Safety Network (NHSN). Data should be submitted through only one of these systems.

Reporting parameters are listed below for each tool to report your 2014-2015 data.

HF Portal:- When to count employees for denominator: October 1, 2014 – December 31, 2014- Days employees must work to be counted in the denominator: 30 days- Deadline to submit data through portal: March 31, 2015

NHSN:- When to count employees for denominator: October 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015- Days employees must work to be counted in the denominator: 1 day- Deadline to submit data through NHSN: May 15, 2015

Note: If you already report HCW flu vaccination data through NHSN, please ensure that you have joined the Colorado Influenza Reporting Group. This can be down as follows:1. In NHSN, left hand blue navigation bar, click Group and Join2. Enter 27648 for both the group id and joining password3. Click Join Group4. At Confer Rights page, scroll to the bottom of page and hit accept.